Project Description:The goal of this project is to envision and implement compelling, useful and/or enlightening visualizations of the Vanilla snip/link structure. Vanilla is a simple, extensible hypertext system and framework for developing small-scale web applications written in REBOL.

The first incarnation of vanilla-vista uses TouchGraph, a Java framework for creating dynamic graph visualizations developed by Alex Shapiro. On langreiter.com, one can experience vanilla-vista in many ways throughout the site by clicking on a particular icon whenever one can spot it (e.g. at the upper right in the header of snips).

A very interesting application of vanilla-vista (available at langreiter.com) is visualizing Google sets, in particular when mapping the relationships and sphere of influence of a particular person, such as Isaac Newton, Plato, Galileo, or Frank Sinatra. Once the initial graph has loaded, you can wander further by double-clicking on a node (which loads the next few neighbouring nodes, should there be any). Be sure to right-click on nodes to see more options (like jumping to the node of interest in the browser).

Comments (0):

*Note* Before you submit your comment, bear in mind there's no guarantee it will be seen by this project's author. In case you want to contact the author directly, please follow the provided URL.

Leave a Comment:

* COMMENTS HAVE BEEN TEMPORARILY DISABLED *
(We're looking for the best solution to avoid unwanted SPAM)